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Welcome to the website of Dave Riese,
author of Echo from Mount Royal, winner of the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award

I’ve been writing off and on since college. However, working, maintaining a house, helping to raise two children…you get the idea: I never seemed to have the time (or the energy) to get serious about writing.

I grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts and attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, majoring in English literature. During my junior year, I studied at Oxford University and traveled to Russia, France, Italy and Greece during vacations.

After college, I enlisted in the Air Force one step ahead of my draft board’s invitation to join the army and continue my travels in Vietnam. I served in the Philippines at Clark Air Base and at Andrews AFB outside Washington D.C.

After my discharge from the military, I began a career in information technology. My wife and I moved north of Boston in 1975. We have two married children, a daughter living in New Hampshire and a son in Rhode Island. We have four grandchildren.

I retired after working 35 years in IT at several Boston-area financial companies. At the time, I told myself, “You call yourself a writer, but you’ve never done the hard, daily work.” Since then I’ve spent 4 – 6 hours a day writing, usually in a local coffee shop.

Preview the novel:
2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award:
• Winner in the General Fiction/Novel category
• Second Place Grand Prize Winner for all fiction books